Rhiwbina Dental Surgery @The Pines

"Upmarket private dentists offering cosmetic surgery. Always good and efficient if somewhat expensive. I prefer this place over an NHS dentist now. They have been very good since I've been there from the NHS days."

"Like most of the country, I suspect, I have no real idea how the Dental Service works. The Medical Service can be easily understood by just about everyone but it seems to me that the dental services are a rip-off charter, each practice operating a scale of charges which is exclusive to it and bearing no similarity to any rival practice. I used to attend a dental surgery in London, an exclusive part of London, I might add and I considered that sometimes, their fees seemed a little over the top. The Rhiwbina Dental surgery is something else. It is the case that they did not coin the phrase ‘extortion’ but they have honed it to a fine art. It is true that their competence is not in doubt but their scale of charges qualify them as the rip-off merchants’ rip-off merchant. It so happens that I suffered an unfortunate experience when I was much younger when my front teeth were removed without the aid of anaesthetic, to wit a stray boot, which means I wear a partial denture. This will soon be replacing and I was advised that a new partial upper denture would cost a shade over £1,900. Out of interest I enquired of two dental laboratories in the area and found that both estimated a replacement would cost, in my case, roughly £600. Have you ever wondered why dental laboratories are in insalubrious premise down some back alley, somewhere? Before settling on this practice I would advise anyone to check out, for comparison, the charges operated by other practices in the area or, indeed, beyond. I calculated that, if I had travelled to London to see my usual dentist, a very good and vastly experienced dentist, by the way, who learned his trade at University College, I should still have been ahead of the deal"

"Absolutely excellent. I was dreading having three teeth removed, but Richard put me at ease and worked really quickly. Felt much better than expected afterwards. Would highly recommend this dental practice."

"Impeccable! Very nice and friendly people and of course professional! This is the standard we must expect from every dental service. High prices and good work. Good luck you all."